A few weeks ago a young man moved into the house next door. His name : Bonni. Bonni is 19yo and hails in from the Simbu province in the Highlands and is the current PNG…
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Monthly Archive for March, 2006
Innocence ignored at Guantanamo
By Richard AcklandFebruary
24, 2006
DONALD Rumsfeld said “they're terrorists, trainers, bombmakers, recruiters,
financiers, [Osama's] bodyguards, and would-be suicide bombers”. The Bush
Administration calls them the “worst of the worst”. The former chairman…
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With the academic year scheduled to start Monday week (13th) and students starting to arrive in preparation for next week's registration, the summer holidays are slowly drawing to an end. A whole 4 months worth!!I…
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By Roland Pease…
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If there is no “I” to feel angry,Why do I get so angry?If there is no “I” to feel scared,Why do I get so scared?If this is all an illusion,Why does it seem so real?The…
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There was plenty of ranting and raving yesterday (Sunday) and not all of it coming from the preacher across the road. Most days I am filled with joy to be living here in PNG and…
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Meet Simon. Simon hails in from : Tari - a town in the Southern Highlands (Last Papua). Simon has lived on the Unitech campus for the past 23 years or so, doing gardening and helping…
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The pace is picking up !As the start of the academic year gets closer (next Monday) - the pace has definitely picked up. Four months of easy street are now well and truly over.This week…
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A shambles !!
There have been a couple of stories in The National newspaper this week about the poor handling of the 2006 Student Registration here at UNITECH.
Like many things in PNG : inefficiency rules !!…
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Live at Duncanson Hall !!Last night I performed live in front of 300-400 students.As part of the student orientation activities two fun nights were planned - one on the Wednesday evening and another on the…
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The big '47' !!Yesterday I celebrated my 47th year on planet earth (well - this time round anyway). One of the nice things about living in PNG is that not many people know the day…
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1st day of lectures !!It's great to be standing up in front of a class full of students again. The lecture preparation, setting and marking assignments and of course exams - are by far the…
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Kids Fighting !This is to inform all parentsPlease do advise your kidsThere was a fight between Taraka and St.Patrick or Tent city schools The fight had started last week Friday and it is still condinuing…
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This story is continued on from : Goroka Trip (17/2/06) - Part #3After the coffee at The Bird and a “stroll” around town we made our way back to the big park across the road…
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Power out all day !No power : no network !No network : no blogging !!On behalf of PNG Power I would like to apologise for any inconvenience this has caused !!!…
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Power out all day !
No power : no network !
No network : no blogging !!Water out all day !No water : no coffee !No water : no showers !!No water : no flushing of toilets…
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A quick summary of my weekend:Friday:- Eli come over Friday afternoon and we spent the weekend together.Saturday:- No power !- Lazy morning + plenty of interaction with neighbours.- Picked up by bus at 11:30am and…
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Last Saturday on my way back from Nadzab (Lae airport) after picking up Goasa's Dad we had a stopover at Eriku to do a quick shop. A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by…
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A “Ihu” word meaning “father”.Last Saturday I headed to the Lae International Airport (Nadzab) with Goasa and his family to meet and pickup Goasa's Dad. I have known and worked with Goasa (same office) now…
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The UNITECH Student Representative Council (SRC) elections took place last Thursday and Friday on campus. I was told late Friday that 1500 out of the 2000 Unitech students took part and voted. Not a bad…
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Eli generally stays me weekends and yesterday evening she asked me if I could take some photos of the two of us. We pulled faces and had a grand old time in the process. These…
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Have included the Blog version number on the left hand side of the Blog Header. Note that if you click on the version # it will take you to Blog Documentaion which has version information…
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The following email was distributed this morning to all UNITECH staff :>Dear Users
>
>Please take note that effords to restore phone lines
particularily to the Agriculture and A/Science >Departments has had cabling
problem. Much of the…
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Simon the gardener passed away last night in Angau Hospital. I have only just found out and have already shed a tear or two. One of my 1st PNG friends in Lae and a man…
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As I mentioned in yesterday's post Simon the gardener passed away sometime Tuesday night at Angau Hospital in Lae. Unfortunately there was also another “death” within the past week.My mate “Sim”…My mate “Sim” is no…
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There is a new AVI (Australian Volunteers International) volunteer on campus. Anthony arrived last Saturday after spending one week in Port Moresby doing Tok Pisin and PNG culture training. This brings the total number of…
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